Scott v. Lloyd
Supreme Court of the United States
IN error to the circuit court of the United States for the county of Washington, in the District of Columbia. An action of replevin was instituted in March 1S25, by John Lloyd, in the circuit court of the United States for the county of 'Alexandria, against Charles Scott, bailiff of William S. Moore; and a declaration was filed in the common form, at. September rules’of the same year. In November 1827, the defendant filed the following avowry.
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IN error to the circuit court of the United States for the county of Washington, in the District of Columbia. An action of replevin was instituted in March 1S25, by John Lloyd, in the circuit court of the United States for the county of 'Alexandria, against Charles Scott, bailiff of William S. Moore; and a declaration was filed in the common form, at. September rules’of the same year. In November 1827, the defendant filed the following avowry. “ Charles Scott, bailiff, &c., .at. suit, John Lloyd ; and the ¡^aid Charles Scott, by Robert J. Taylor, his attorney, comes and defends the force and…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Marshall
This is’an action of replevin instituted in the circuit court for the county of Alexandria, and removed, for trial, to the county of Washington.
The plaintiff in error, the original defendant, avowed as bailiff of William S. Moore, that the goods replevied were dis-trained for rent in arrear. The plaintiff in replevin, after craving oyer of the deed, by which the rent alleged to be in arrear was reserved, pleaded the statute of usury in bar of the claim. The plea alleged that the contract between the parties was a corrupt and usurious lending of the sum of 5000 dollars, upon an interest of ten…
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